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About Kent Miller

Kent brings 16 years of professional experience as a photojournalist and photo into the classroom as an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism and Digital Media in the Department of Journalism at Central Michigan University.

Miller’s photography has been published in numerous magazines including, Nat Geo France, Germany’s View Magazine, England’s Loaded Magazine, Australia’s The Who Weekly, Newsweek, People and Playboy; in newspapers, including USA TODAY, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Detroit Free Press; and in books including America 24/7 and Lonely Planet’s Alaska. Kent's image of Mt. McKinley resides on the tail side of Alaska’s America the Beautiful quarter that was commissioned by the U.S. Mint.

Over the course of his career, Kent has won over 40 international, national

and state photography awards from organizations including National Geographic, The Wilderness Society and the Michigan Press Photographers Association. Kent was awarded Alumnus of the Year from the Columbus Region of Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana.

Kent has been a photographer and videographer for the National Park Service in Alaska since 2008. He also teaches a week-long residential photography course annually for the Denali Education Center. Kent also used his trips to Alaska to establish a Central Michigan University internship program for his students at three different national parks.

His students have won several national and international awards. Photojournalism majors have kept the program in the top five in the nation for the past three years competing in the National Hearst Journalism Awards Program, which is likened to the Pulitzer Prize for students.

Category Archives: Family

Jamie Miller, 7, peers out his back door at the blowing and drifting snow in his backyard in Bay City, Mich. February 2, 2011. The blizzard conditions shut down most non-essential schools, government and businesses in Bay City. Most of Michigan, including Bay County, has been hit hard by the blizzard that is sweeping across the Midwest. Officials report that the area has not seen this strong of a blizzard in 15 years. Snow thunder was heard early this morning.

For real. A flash of brown fur. Boom!!! Crumple. Crumple Crumple. We hit a deer head on. The mini van lurched but continued on trampling the large doe under our wheels. Lucky for us the deer went under the car and not through the windshield. We were almost killed while Jessie was driving me to the airport early this morning. We were astounded.

“Oh Kent! Oh Kent,” Jessie screamed. “We have to pull over!” The sign read, Mackinaw Rd. four miles from our exit to the airport. I said, “No! No! We have to make it to Garfield Road! Steam began streaming from what was left of the hood of the car. There was no way I was going to be stuck on the side of the interstate. Jessie protested as an exit went by. As Jessie continued to freak out, I calmed her down by showing her that the temperature gauge had not moved. Finally our exit was in sight. A gas station came into view. The temperature gauge climbed. She turned off US 10. The steam ever increasing spewed everywhere. The temperature gauge peaked just as we pulled into the gas station.

Still 5 miles from the airport. What to do. Jessie, the queen of everything, asked a man pumping gas if he could give me a ride. I surveyed the damage. Bad. Real bad.

Within 10 minutes I was on my way. Thank you to the man that drove me! Thank you Jessie! What a relief!

Brian and I raced to Tawas on Friday evening June 26 starting at 7 p.m. aboard BetSea with 15-20 knot winds. Had great wind and sailing until we approached Au Gres. The wind slowly died. By 2:30 a.m. the wind died completely. We gave up, started the motor and got to Tawas at 6:30 a.m. I fell asleep against the bulkhead for about two hours. Brian slept for about an hour while we were on auto-pilot. We finished as a DNF (Did Not Finish). We would have pulled into Tawas at noon otherwise.

Met Jessie, Betsy, Jamie, Jeanne and Tayler at about 1:30 that afternoon. Had fun on the beach. Went to dinner at G’s. Jessie, Jeanne and Jamie went home to Bay City and the girls stayed overnight with us at the dock in Tawas.

Headed back to Bay City at 9:30 a.m. The wind was right on our beam at about 15 knots. Perfect! Didn’t last too long as the wind shifted to our bow and gained strength. We were heeling so bad that it became uncomfortable for the kids so we motorsailed the rest of the way home. Gusts up to 25 knots. Got back to Bay City at about 6:30 p.m. A great time!

Mary Wood-Premack is my dear sister-in-law. We celebrated her 50th birthday by surprising her at our cousin Laura’s house in Royal Oak.

Jimmy, Catherine, Jessie and KentÂ arrived at Laura’s house at 4:45 p.m. on Saturday, June 20th.Â At 5:00 p.m., Tim, Mary and their daughter, Rachel arrived at Laura’s house. Mary was told Rachel was to babysit Laura and Tom’s children while Laura and Tom went to a separate dinner. Rachel sent Jessie a text letting us know they were a few blocks away. Jimmy, Catherine, Jessie and I headed upstairs to the loft above the living room.

Upon their arrival, Laura told Mary she had a yoga video she wanted to show her. When she started the video, instead, it was the above video. As soon as the video began, we all yelled “Surprise!” from above. Mary freaked! She had no clue of our ruse. After lots of hugs, we watched the video together and then we all headed out to Clover Leaf for a wine tasting and then on to D’Amatos for dinner.

My nephew, Joshua, graduated with honors and gave a speech at Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, Indiana. Josh is heading to New York University in Manhatten, to study things of which I could not possibly understand… Josh is a quiet yet deep person. He exhales, kindess and humility. We are so proud of you, Joshua! – Video by my brother-in-law, Bernie.

My wife, Jessie plays Mamma Morton (Queen Latifah) in the Musical, Chicago at The Bay City Players. She sings two songs, gets called “Butch” and “Diesel” and owns the stage. The show sold out in 2 1/2 hours. I am so proud of her! To purchase photos from the show, click here.